tooth marks
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Martin is a geologist and paleontologist focused primarily on ichnology -- the study of traces of life such as tracks, burrows, nests and tooth marks.
From Science Daily • Nov. 16, 2023
The shells lacked telltale signs of being eaten by other animals, like tooth marks or shattering patterns from being dropped on rocks by birds.
From New York Times • Feb. 7, 2023
The formulation is simple for Friedman: Those are tooth marks, and who else would have bit the piano?
From Seattle Times • Nov. 1, 2022
Meanwhile, in graves all over Greece, excavators have uncovered small, globular ceramic bottles with spouts, some with baby tooth marks on the spouts, Sneed reports in the paper.
From Science Magazine • Dec. 10, 2021
All I knew was if I found tooth marks on one page of my rocket book, I was going to declare hunting season on a certain bushy-tailed rodent.
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
